A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

An underground city of salt.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.