This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The iconic blonde bombshell has a familial connection to this town in southern Norway.

A favorite with sightseers and locals alike, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.