Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A 1:2 billion-scale solar system leads visitors into this German university town.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Renowned mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss once worked at this observatory.

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

A beloved street vendor is memorialized outside a German train station.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.