This bike is one that you have to stand on, even though there are pedals. DW reporter Meike Krüger finds out how easy it is (or not) to actually ride a halfbike.

Every day, Vladimir Kosic puts together a different seafood menu for his Lesendro Restaurant. He serves grilled vegetables with Buzara, a seafood-based dish. It's a taste of Adriatic flair in the midst of Berlin.

Artistic cyclists are essentially acrobats on wheels. David Schnabel and Lea Schäpe don’t bat an eye as they execute amazing tricks, or exercises - squats, jumps and saddle-stands - on their stunt cycles.

In 1817, Baron Karl von Drais changed the world when he invented the bicycle. A technological museum in Mannheim is honoring that feat with the exhibit "2 Wheels – 200 Years.“ A trip back through time.

A new perspective on Hungary’s capital: an amphibious bus takes sightseers on a city tour of Budapest by land and water. In 1987, the Danube banks and the Buda Castle Quarter were named a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Design a piece of clothing on the screen, press the "knit" button, sit back, and relax. The "Kniterate" machine will make knitting a whole lot easier. It was developed by Gerard Rubio in London.

The sport of windsurfing took sail in 1967. Jim Drake of the USA was the first to mount a sail on a surfboard. Soon after, Calle Schmidt took his windsurf board to the island of Sylt, and made the new sport trendy.

Iceland has some 30 volcanic systems. They fascinate both locals and tourists. The new Lava Centre offers Europe’s biggest exhibition on volcanoes and earthquakes.

Maja Kuczyńska – the woman who dances with the wind. The 17-year-old Pole is Europe’s star of indoor skydiving. She carries out her elegant, fast, and flexible figures in a wind tunnel where air moves at 300 km/h.

In the Belgian hotel La Ballade des Gnômes, guests spend the night in a huge wooden horse. The idea comes from Homer’s Iliad, where Greek warriors hid in the Trojan horse to enter Troy and destroy it.