Thrilling and delicious complement to any dining experience.

A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

The largest mosque in Germany.

Residing along a busy thoroughfare, this sculpture urges passersby to consider the future.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

Life-sized bronze statues of fictional puppet characters.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.

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

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This little jewel of post-war religious architecture is hidden inside the Diocesan Museum, which swallowed it when it was built.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A rainbow tunnel painted across three buildings and six storeys pulls a child (and every passerby) straight down the rabbit hole, ranked among the world's best murals the year it went up.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.