The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

Wind power station for making famous Ketel One vodka.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

The Rozenberg wind wall in South Holland makes for smooth sailing through the Calandbrug canal.