This fountain has a growing (animal) population, and might also be growing in size.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

A 16th-century mosque rebuilt after wartime devastation.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

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

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

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.