Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.