A unique collection of five Roman burial grounds right next to the road.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

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

Since its accidental discovery in 1977, this sarcophagus has been described as "the greatest masterpiece of Merovingian sculpture north of the Alps."

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

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.

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