Tuoro sul Trasimeno, Italy
Torre Di Vernazzano
This lesser-known leaning tower is all that remains of the medieval castle of Vernazzano.
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Tuoro sul Trasimeno, Italy
This lesser-known leaning tower is all that remains of the medieval castle of Vernazzano.
Norcia, Italy
A map of Italy made entirely of trees.
Foligno, Italy
The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.
Rasiglia, Italy
This medieval mountain town is also known as the "Village of Streams."
Schleswig, Germany
Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.
Rendsburg, Germany
One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Bispingen, Germany
A German artist built a home and garden filled with whimsical art pieces, like a massive, operational volcano.
Herzberg am Harz, Germany
What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.
Göttingen, Germany
Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Kassel, Germany
At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.
Bremen, Germany
One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.
Bremen, Germany
The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.
Lübeck, Germany
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
Sønderborg, Denmark
This colossal hiking boot, once built for a scout jamboree, serves as an observation tower and barbecue area.
Nordstrand, Germany
A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.
Flensburg, Germany
Located in the middle of public park, this cave built in the early 19th century houses an ancient stone sarcophagus.
Eutin, Germany
This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.
Sierksdorf, Germany
A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.
Gadebusch, Germany
This unusual sculpture depicts how coins were made when minting was done by hand.
Magdeburg, Germany
The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."
Goseck, Germany
A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.
Alberta
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.