Nördlingen, Germany
Nordlingen
A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.
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Nördlingen, Germany
A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.
Oberhausen, Germany
An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.
Halbe, Germany
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Zinnowitz, Germany
An elevator into the Baltic Sea.
Wuppertal, Germany
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Erfurt, Germany
This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Lacco Ameno, Italy
A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.
Ravello, Italy
Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.
Cislano, Italy
A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.
Fiorano modenese, Italy
Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.
Pianlivere, Italy
The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.
Milan, Italy
Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.
Caltagirone, Italy
142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.
Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, Italy
The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."
Iglesias, Italy
On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.
Melendugno, Italy
Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.
Orvieto, Italy
Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.
Andria, Italy
Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.
Perca, Italy
These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.
Chiusdino, Italy
These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.