A painting marks the site of a historic skyscraper destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Rumored to be a giant robot in disguise, this colossal chef has been the beloved symbol of Tokyo’s kitchenware district for decades.

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

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

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

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

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.