Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

The Renaissance-era courthouse is a relic from the fortified town's centuries of Venetian rule.