This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

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.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

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

Berlin's old airport.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.