The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

These caves are home to a small church and were used to age cheese.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

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

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.