Chartres, France
Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral
The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.
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Chartres, France
The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.
Saint-Denis, France
The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Prague, Czechia
Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.
Vienna, Austria
The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Munich, Germany
King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Munich, Germany
This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Cologne, Germany
Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.
The Hague, Netherlands
A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.
Haarlem, Netherlands
Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.
Lisse, Netherlands
Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.
Oudewater, Netherlands
The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.