A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

Comprised of Spanish war cannons, this sculpture once graced the bow of a WWI warship.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

The Greek War of Independence was declared at this medieval Byzantine sanctuary.

This sixth-century church housed an icon with eyes so beautiful legend has it they inspired the name of a Greek city.

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Legend says it was constructed with the destroyed pillar of an ancient Greek Temple.