This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

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

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

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

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

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

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