Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.