Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

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

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

An old Danish political institution where members of government can grab a drink off the record.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

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

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.