Längenfeld, Austria
Aqua Dome Langenfeld
Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.
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Längenfeld, Austria
Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.
Wattens, Austria
Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.
Büsingen am Hochrhein, Germany
A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.
Blaubeuren, Germany
In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.
Rome, Italy
In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.
Rome, Italy
Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.
Rome, Italy
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Borgo a Mozzano, Italy
A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Pisa, Italy
Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.
Milan, Italy
This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.
Schrobenhausen, Germany
Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.
Mühltal, Germany
The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!
Bad Schussenried, Germany
This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.
Bretten, Germany
One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Blankenburg (Harz), Germany
A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.
Thale, Germany
This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.
Dresden, Germany
The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
Freiberg, Germany
A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.