Torun, Poland
Nicolaus Copernicus House
Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."
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Torun, Poland
Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."
Gdańsk, Poland
This Communist-era residential block is one of the longest residential building in Europe.
Gdańsk, Poland
This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.
Gdańsk, Poland
One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.
Poznań, Poland
These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.
Karpacz, Poland
The largest toy museum in Poland showcases Europe's history of childhood.
Karpacz, Poland
This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Metz, France
A neo-gothic statue modeled on German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had its distinctive mustache shaved off by Nazis in World War II.
Metz, France
A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.
Munich, Germany
A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Munich, Germany
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Budapest, Hungary
A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
Budapest, Hungary
This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.
Krakow, Poland
St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.
Krakow, Poland
This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.
Krakow, Poland
This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.