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

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.