A little known pile of scraps and plaques mark the grave of a downed RAF bomber.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

Home of controversial poet priest who penned the words for the Austrian national anthem used in the 1930s.

Austria's 5-star prison.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.