Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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

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

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

A tribute to the city's rich history of shipbuilding.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.