These public toilets also provide entertainment for visitors to Amsterdam’s Red Light District.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

The facade of this bank has changed little over the centuries, including its unique welcome sign.

A pillar is all that remains of a church built to honor a peculiar miracle.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

This large copper bolt represents the benchmark for measuring sea levels in most of Europe.

A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Above the heads of passersby stands a small statue commemorating soldiers from the Boer War.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

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

Amsterdam's narrowest house facade is a monument to 17th-century tax evasion.

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.

In 1988, jazz legend Chet Baker fell to his death from a window of this hotel facing Amsterdam Centraal.

A small stone boy mischievously turns his backside toward the city’s most famous water carrier.

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.