Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

Is this statue at Naumberg Cathedral the fairest of them all?

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.