After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This slice of 1960s Danish modernism does not conform to the Oxford college stereotypes.

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

Famous landmarks and structures from across Italy fill this miniature park.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.