This 12th-century castle majestically overlooks the city and the beautiful Mosel River valley.

For a few short weeks in spring, this hiking path becomes a daffodil paradise.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Slather on the history at an exhibition dedicated to this Russian luxury.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.