A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

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

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

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

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Berlin's old airport.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.