A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.