Ettal, Germany
Linderhof Palace
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
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Ettal, Germany
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.
Paris, France
A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
St. Gallen, Switzerland
This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.
Wasserauen, Switzerland
This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.
Munich, Germany
The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.
Munich, Germany
A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.
Munich, Germany
The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Munich, Germany
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Munich, Germany
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.