This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

Pick up this rock and become an instant legend.

This wild explosion of color on a disused water tower tells the whimsical tale of a curious puffin.

A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.

A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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

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

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

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

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.