This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

A monumental golden thumb rises as an iconic homage to Nouveau Réalisme, bold in scale and unapologetic in spirit.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

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

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.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A historic railway bridge now offers hikers breathtaking views.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

This giant roadside fruit is home to an array of apple-based treats.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

The unusual stilted beacon is the town's only active lighthouse.

This little-known wall in Southampton stands as one of the most unique and personal monuments to D-Day.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.