A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.