The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

This monolithic slab of art metal crowns a German slag heap.

Wooden pathways run through this rocky landscape, which legend says was created when a dwarven king pulled down his own castle to stop raiding giants.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

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.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

An hour south of Punta Arenas (Chile) along the Strait of Magellan, a Kcymaerxthaere plaque tells the story of Culev Larsze, cursed to live without words in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.