Berchtesgaden, Germany
The Eagle's Nest
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
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Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
Heidelberg, Germany
Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.
Oberwesel, Germany
Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Cologne, Germany
The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”