It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

Legendary pedestrian bridge in the centre of Romanian city Sibiu.

This train station's platforms were built extremely narrow to deceive a rather arrogant government official

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

This museum offers a journey back to the Belle Epoque era of Romania.

Historic beer hall in Bucharest with magnificent stained glass and a lively folk band.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

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

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

One of the oldest cathedrals in the U.K. houses a priceless early manuscript.

This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

A winding medieval path was used by mourners to carry their dead to the nearest church.

The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.