Paris, France
The Heart of Voltaire
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
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Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Hinte, Germany
The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Bremen, Germany
Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.
Dresden, Germany
This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.
Dresden, Germany
The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.
Dresden, Germany
A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Munich, Germany
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Munich, Germany
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
Worms, Germany
The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Potsdam, Germany
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Dresden, Germany
Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Ettal, Germany
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
London, England
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
Paris, France
A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.
Paris, France
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.
Fethiye, Turkey
These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.