The shiny silver little brother to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue.

This black cat was actually designed to ward off bad luck.

One of the longest footbridges in Europe.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

An incredibly well-preserved barbershop from the 1920s was transformed into a tiny local museum.

This Late Gothic building that once housed Erasmus is now known as the filming location of "Suspiria."

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.