Dienersdorf, Austria
Gsellmann's Weltmaschine
"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.
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Dienersdorf, Austria
"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.
Vienna, Austria
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Sibley, Iowa
The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.
Berlin, Germany
The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.
Schwerin, Germany
A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.
Lübbenau/Spreewald, Germany
A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.
Eisenach, Germany
The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.
Bremen, Germany
Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
Quedlinburg, Germany
The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.
Ohrdruf, Germany
Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.
Brandon, Iowa
The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.
Des Moines, Iowa
Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.
Ida Grove, Iowa
An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.
Gladbrook, Iowa
A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.
Rott am Inn, Germany
These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.
Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany
This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.
Koblenz, Germany
This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.
Königswinter, Germany
This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."
Vicksburg, Mississippi
The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Krems an der Donau, Austria
A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.
Höhe, Austria
This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.