Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

A purr-fectly spirited bronze celebration of local street felines through history.

Dedicated to the man who saved hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

A lakeside footbridge that records Nobel Prize laureates' names in metal silhouette.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

Rusted humanoid clutching a laptop and trailing cables.

This striking clock tower was once part of the Singer sewing machine factory.

These rose marble urinals are the most luxurious loos in Liverpool.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.