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Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

A cableway for car transport.

Buy raw milk from a 24/7 vending machine or pick up tomb candles at this local market.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Slovenia's first mosque is a striking mix of Islamic and modernist architecture.

In between two buildings in Ljubljana, medieval tunnel to nowhere.

Of all the houses that grace this neighborhood, only one is a testament to surreal architecture.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

According to local legend, the devil shattered this column after losing a bet.