Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.