A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

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

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

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

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

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

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

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

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

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.