Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

This ice cream parlor serves scoops of flavors like rakia, medlar, and poppy seed.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.