A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

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

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

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

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.