Laußig, Germany
Secret Military Bunker Kossa
This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.
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Laußig, Germany
This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.
Chamonix, France
Trek up this glacier before it disappears.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Ettal, Germany
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
Noasca, Italy
This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Leipzig, Germany
This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.
Pont-en-Royans, France
These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.
Montignac, France
Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."
Bodio, Switzerland
The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.
Saugues, France
An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.
Le Puy, France
A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.
Wunsiedel, Germany
Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.
Lützen, Germany
A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.
Zermatt, Switzerland
One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.
Saas-Almagell, Switzerland
The only tower of an aerial tramway standing over a ski-lift.
Laboe, Germany
This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.
Augsburg, Germany
In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.
Bourcefranc-le-Chapus, France
A castle-like sea fort from the 17th century is now a museum to oyster farming.
Lübeck, Germany
The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.
Chamonix, France
Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.
Wolmirstedt, Germany
Where the interconnection of German power grids should be.
Andermatt, Switzerland
A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.