Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

A breathtaking viewing platform over the Alps.

Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.

The world's largest wooden structure.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Medieval village and microminiature museum.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

This medieval church in a small Austrian village is home to a 700-year-old Mickey Mouse lookalike.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

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

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

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

The medieval network of canals hidden underneath the city is opened to explorers each year.

American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.