This statue was a gift to commemorate the Thai monarch's first visit to a foreign land.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

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

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

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

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

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

If James Bond bungee-jumped off the side of a 720-foot dam, would you do it too?

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.