Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

This general store has stood in the same spot for well over a century.

The whole world in one water tank.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.