The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

An out-of-place grove of sequoias thrives in northern Spain.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

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

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

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

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

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.