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

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This unique architectural wonder is home to luxury apartments.

Four whimsical figures make for an unexpected sight along an urban commuter route.

A former smithy turned cultural hub with the capital's largest mural space.

Nature puts on a spectacular show at this blowhole on the eastern side of Gran Canaria.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

This stone tower was built to protect Crete from incoming pirates.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

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

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.