This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

Portraits of musicians line Oude Binnenweg, the jazziest street in the city.

The last Tsar of Russia constructed this private church just so he could attend services when visiting his wife's hometown.

This mysterious but iconic tapered tower appears in many Azeri fairytales and legends.

A distinctive former power plant turned university lecture hall looks like it could make you breakfast.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

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

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.