An Amsterdam School landmark combining a museum and social housing.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

In 1907, writer Nikolaus Welter invented a fictitious Voodoo tradition around this statue of a reclining Christ — which has since become a reality.

A 17th-century heptagonal pavilion that was used for stargazing.

This surprising work of art reminds us that La Louvière was once home to one of Europe’s most famous stoneware factories.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

This ferry carries passengers across the Rhine propelled by no engine or paddles but by the river's current.

A neo-gothic statue modeled on German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had its distinctive mustache shaved off by Nazis in World War II.

Rendering of a comic-book hero turned Luxembourg national symbol.

The extra platform at Gloucester Road has been used for art displays for over 25 years.

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.

Tucked away in a London Tube station, this 1920s linear clock shows the time across the world all at once.

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

Several colorful mosaic panels depict the life and creative genius of the Master of Suspense.

One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.