Aachen, Germany
Printen Museum
This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.
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Aachen, Germany
This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.
Cvikov, Czechia
The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.
Terezín, Czechia
Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.
Pilsen, Czechia
Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.
Poznań, Poland
A cluster of headless, armless sculptures looms within a popular Polish park.
Wrocław, Poland
The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Lille, France
This monumental mural crafted nearly 40 years ago is still in perfect condition.
Saulces-Monclin, France
The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.
La Ferté-sur-Chiers, France
This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.
Lille, France
This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Belfort, France
A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.
Lille, France
This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.
Ypres, Belgium
This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.
Arnhem, Netherlands
The largest airborne operation in history was launched to capture this bridge.
Haarlem, Netherlands
This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.
Whitby, England
These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.
Whitby, England
The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.