The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

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

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.