What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

The remnants of a WWI naval mine that once terrorized the country now decorates a street.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

A late-medieval Dutch castle with trick fountains in its whimsical water gardens.

For over 100 years the most important physicists in the world have autographed this university wall.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

In the Netherlands, one of the world's largest private car collections can be found.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

The world's largest private telescope collection hides in a secret wing of a Dutch auto museum.

A strangely curved lamppost stands tall over this avenue in Rotterdam.

People have been placing babies on these lilies for photoshoots since the Victorian era.

This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.

This public library and its impressive collection of academic books have not changed since the 17th century.