A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

A pair of giant stone heads represent the ancient Roman saints beheaded here.

The largest mosque in Germany.

A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

This little jewel of post-war religious architecture is hidden inside the Diocesan Museum, which swallowed it when it was built.

This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

Life-sized bronze statues of fictional puppet characters.

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

A shrine to one of England's female saints in what is believed to be her former home.

A rare tobacconist Napoleon statue stands inside York’s medieval guildhall.

An established watering hole whose unique history is as fascinating as its decor

A pillar is all that remains of a church built to honor a peculiar miracle.

A statue commemorating 'the greatest inhabitant of Amsterdam of all time.'

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.

This 17th-century house has a long and colorful history.