This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Finally reunited, the three effigies now stand in a museum courtyard.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.