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Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

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

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A rare tour of an aristocrat's private home reveals valuable 17th-century paintings from artists like Rembrandt.

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

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

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

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

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.