This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

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

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.