Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

This marvelous array is one of the largest collections of mechanical instruments in Europe.

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.

Life-sized bronze statues of fictional puppet characters.

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

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Epicurean and holy traditions converge in what may be the oldest restaurant in Europe.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.