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Was the twisted roof on this church's belltower an intentional design or a happy accident?

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.

Workers have collected salt here in a process virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.

Just a few miles from Novalja, a strange geological oddity has left scientists baffled.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

A unique two-level bridge designed to honor a king.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

The inverted pyramid design of this station stands out amid Bratislava's urban landscape.

According to the local legend, these boys and ducks were turned to stone by an angered water goblin.

In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.

An unconventional memorial to the women burned as witches in Bratislava.

The memorial stands at the intersection of the rivers Morava and Danube.

A cableway for car transport.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

What was once an ordinary pedestrian tunnel under Gorizia Castle has been transformed into an immersive artistic experience.