Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

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

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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.