An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

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

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

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

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

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

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

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.