A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.