The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

An abandoned pasta factory in the centre of Bucharest, once home to Bulgarian revolutionaries and a hub of crime.

Denmark’s never-ending bridge.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This Dutch statue is a monument to the fictional shrew who brought doom to the city of Stavoren.

This 11th-century castle sits so low you can't see it behind the surrounding buildings.

The Netherlands' first car tunnel has an unusually rectangular shape.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

Atop this former dutch railway office sits an interstellar work of art.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.

The struggle of a small Dutch island against the sea.

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

The elegant manor house where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile after World War I.

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

The ruins of a medieval castle that once belonged to one of the most powerful families in the Netherlands.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.

Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.

The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.

This unique bridge physically lifts a piece of the road into the air to let boats pass by.