Palm Springs, California
Volkswagen Spider Sculpture
This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.
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Palm Springs, California
This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.
Palm Springs, California
A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.
Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Yaiza, Spain
This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.
Reims, France
An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.
Bayeux, France
This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.
Montrichard Val de Cher, France
Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.
Belfort, France
A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.
Carnac, France
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.
Amboise, France
The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.
Montignac, France
Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."
Ulm, Germany
Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.
Sinsheim, Germany
It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.
Augsburg, Germany
This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.
Niederfinow, Germany
This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.
Dresden, Germany
Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.
Dresden, Germany
Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.
Blaubeuren, Germany
In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
Netzschkau, Germany
The largest brick bridge in the world.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
Leipzig, Germany
This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.
Magdeburg, Germany
The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."
Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.