Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

A famous big wave from Japan serves as a tribute to the victims of the disastrous Elbe flood.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

A monument to one of Croatia's famous freedom fighters.

This narrow fjord-like bay is the largest ria in the Mediterranean Sea.

A crumbling World War I fort that is reached through a series of concrete tunnels.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

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

This modest German chapel has been in use for more than 1000 years.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

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

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.