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Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

One of the oldest universities in the world exhibits thousands of specimens from its 700-year-old collection.

A Portuguese museum display features a bizarre assortment of objects.

Sample some of Iberia’s best tinned fish at this century-old cannery just north of Porto.

This historic cemetery is home to the largest private mausoleum in Europe.

Taste the precursor of peri-peri chicken at this restaurant just outside of Lisbon.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A unique collection of five Roman burial grounds right next to the road.

This bunker site once briefly used by Hitler now features locals’ accounts of German occupation.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

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

A cemetery in the Netherlands honors Soviet soldiers from World War II.

The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.

A uniquely preserved neo-Gothic church that is now home to a collection of art and woodcarvings.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

Unchanged for centuries, this medieval library keeps its books in chains.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.