The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.

Where members of the Crossbow Corps of San Marino demonstrate their skills.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.

You can still walk across this beautiful medieval bridge in Andorra.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

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.