Buy raw milk from a 24/7 vending machine or pick up tomb candles at this local market.

Workers have collected salt here in a process virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.

A bridge to rival those in nearby Venice but without the crowds.

Inspired by the Rialto Bridge in Venice, these three clustered bridges were just one part of a Slovenian architect’s grand vision.

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

Piran’s oldest square is laden with history and a beautiful 18th-century reservoir.

Europe's only Temple of Mithras located in a natural cave.

On a small Slovenian island, diners can mix and match a classic cake into dozens of sweet and savory flavor combinations.

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.

A controversial “crumpet”-shaped museum tries its best to blend in with surrounding parkland.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

Ruins of a vanished village, long shadowed by rumors of a hidden lineage

A strange building in the woods connected to a tragic love story

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.

A lakeside footbridge that records Nobel Prize laureates' names in metal silhouette.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

A non-stop elevator ride in Vienna's city hall.

The world’s oldest military museum has remained largely unchanged since the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.