This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.