Vienna, Austria
Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
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Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Salzburg, Austria
Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Gargoyle head that brings good luck.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.
Budapest, Hungary
A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.
Brno, Czechia
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
Wolfsburg, Germany
Volkswagen's dedicated museum dives into the complex history of one of the world's best known cars.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.
Warsaw, Poland
This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.
Krakow, Poland
Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.
Krakow, Poland
Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.
Krakow, Poland
This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Krakow, Poland
This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.
Prague, Czechia
Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.
Prague, Czechia
Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Maastricht, Netherlands
This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.
Brussels, Belgium
A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.
Brussels, Belgium
Belgium’s famous peeing statue has worn many hats (and coats, and pants), which are on display at this small museum.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.