This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.