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The official motto of Luxembourg reminds passersby of the Luxembourgish commitment to their national identity and sovereignty.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

The highest cold-water geyser in the world.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

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

Two standing giants remain as a tribute to Luxembourg's metallurgical past.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

South of Bologna, a limestone grotto with a protruding waterfall and a floor full of cave pearls.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The middle finger of modernity.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.