This half-ton piece of the Alps sits at the base of the CN Tower.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.