This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

Lines on the pillar of Heidelberg's Karl-Theodor Bridge record the dramatic heights of past floods.

A sculpture of a courtesan towers above Lake Constance, recalling a church scandal.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.