This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

This power plant is at the edge of a Czech mountain.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.

The oldest hydroelectric plant in Czechia is now a museum.

Instead of sermons, this church became home to millions of books.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Just like in Hollywood, Madrid has also a forgotten walk of fame.

1,300 chamber pots and their eccentric collector.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

A set of seven houses, each built in a style that represents a European country.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.