This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

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

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.