France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The middle finger of modernity.