Bad Schlema, Germany
Museum Uranbergbau
Learn the incredible story of how an unassuming spa town was transformed into one of the world’s largest uranium mining sites.
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Bad Schlema, Germany
Learn the incredible story of how an unassuming spa town was transformed into one of the world’s largest uranium mining sites.
Karlovy Vary, Czechia
Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.
Jáchymov, Czechia
Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.
Metten, Germany
This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.
Hornberg, Germany
A unique showroom for bathroom fixtures featuring a giant toilet observation deck.
Schonach im Schwarzwald, Germany
A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.
Lindau, Germany
A lakeside footbridge that records Nobel Prize laureates' names in metal silhouette.
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.
Damme, Belgium
Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.
Ypres, Belgium
In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.
Ypres, Belgium
The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.
Ypres, Belgium
This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Ypres, Belgium
A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.
Ypres, Belgium
In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.
Vleteren, Belgium
Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.
Lo-Reninge, Belgium
A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.
Nieuwpoort, Belgium
A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.
Baden-Baden, Germany
This magnificent church allows travelers along one of Germany's busiest roadways a chance to rest and reflect.
Hinterweidenthal, Germany
It's said the devil used this mushroom rock as a table for a late-night meal.
Beveren, Belgium
This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.
Baarle-Nassau, Netherlands
This building once stood at the center of a butter war.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.