Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
WaldMenschen Sculpture Trail
A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.
Staufen im Breisgau, Germany
A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.
Donaueschingen, Germany
The great Danube river starts here.
Oppenau, Germany
This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.
Hinterweidenthal, Germany
It's said the devil used this mushroom rock as a table for a late-night meal.
Sankt Ingbert, Germany
This rock resembling a turned-up boot has become the symbol of St. Ingbert.
Blieskastel, Germany
After Nazi forces smashed this 4,000-year-old Neolithic standing stone, locals banded together to restore it.
Sulzbach, Germany
Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."
Völklingen, Germany
A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.
Mettlach, Germany
Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."
Tholey, Germany
Germany’s oldest monastery has origins dating back to the 7th century.
Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.
Siegen, Germany
One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.
Mörsdorf, Germany
Germany's longest suspension rope bridge.
Cochem, Germany
This 12th-century castle majestically overlooks the city and the beautiful Mosel River valley.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Königswinter, Germany
This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."
Schleiden, Germany
An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
La Ferté-sur-Chiers, France
This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.
Guise, France
This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.
Viry-Noureuil, France
The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.
Châteaudun, France
The remains of this ornate chapel now act as a portal to a cramped French cemetery.
Bordeaux, France
A very uncommon water tank standing in the middle of the grapevines in Bordeaux nearly a century after its construction.