This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

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

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

A small villa said to have inspired the design of the court jester at the heart of Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera.

An architectural oddity where the triglyphs of the courtyard of walls create an optical illusion.

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.