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.

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.