This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

Not many houses move across borders, this one did it twice.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

Relics from as far back as the 16th century are on display in a city known for its playing card industry.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

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

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

The tallest mountain in mainland Netherlands isn't actually very tall.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

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.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A spiralling hourglass-shaped tower rises from the forests in Denmark.

One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.