This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

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

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

The facade of this bank has changed little over the centuries, including its unique welcome sign.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

Little-known artist couple chose a former silk factory as the location for a museum dedicated to their work and other avant-garde art.

A bronze statue commemorating his royal meowjesty, Toulouse.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.