The Devil’s tour lives up to its name with steep climbs, eerie legends and surprisingly heavenly scenery.

Paintball Arena in Cheb, Czech Republic, has a collection of courses that look like they were pulled straight out of Call of Duty.

If you ask staff at Meisenthal Glassworks in northeastern France why the site is closed to the public during the first three months of the year, they’ll tell you they need that long to recover from the Christmas rush.

Venice, Italy, is not known for its beaches. But Lido di Venezia, one of Venice’s 118 barrier islands, is almost exclusively beachfront and an easy day trip from Venice or nearby U.S. military bases in Vicenza or Aviano.

A mountain of mining waste in Bavaria has been transformed into a first-class recreational experience at Monte Kaolino, an amusement park in the picturesque town of Hirschau, approximately 12 miles south of Tower Barracks in Grafenwoehr.

Karzakkan Forest isn’t pristine. The coast isn’t curated. But together, they offer something increasingly rare — authenticity.

The German-French Garden, a sprawling public park on the outskirts of Saarbrücken, is a lovely place to meander and reflect on the hard-won peace between the two countries that exists today.

The Moselle River city of Bernkastel-Kues, Germany, is a veritable monument to a 15th-century native son named Nicholas of Cusa, a cardinal who embodied the term “Renaissance man.”

Underneath Oxford Street in one of London’s most popular districts, the Twisted Museum contains a vast array of exhibits that entice those eager to see just how many ways the brain can be tricked.

Alpakas Eifel, a small, family-run trekking business in the bucolic village of Plütscheid, Germany, invites guests to explore the countryside with a leashed alpaca by their side.