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

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The enormous isokinetic structure hangs within a science center in Estonia.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

The world's first electric battery-powered submarine.