This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

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

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

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A quartet of tiled art pieces adorn the floors of this prestigious art museum.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.