The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

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

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

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

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

An abandoned pasta factory in the centre of Bucharest, once home to Bulgarian revolutionaries and a hub of crime.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

This sculpture used famed boxer Joe Louis as the inspiration behind its body.

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

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

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

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

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

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

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

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.