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.

This interactive sculpture allows visitors to leave a message in case a friend passes by.

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

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Sculptures of religious figures made from the ashes of pilgrims' incense.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

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

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.