A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

The world's largest bicycle shelter can hold more than 12,500 two-wheelers.

A famous big wave from Japan serves as a tribute to the victims of the disastrous Elbe flood.

The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

This small train ride offers stellar views of the Grand Garden Palace.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.