Along the Rhine, about a mile from the historic Munster, learn the heartrending story of two lovers torn asunder, cast into unknown layers of time and space.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

The Netherlands' first car tunnel has an unusually rectangular shape.

Elegant marble and old vaults fill this historic Dutch bank turned office space.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A hidden church in a hidden courtyard tells the story of the Miracle of Amsterdam.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

The history and future of cannabis.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.