The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.

Dedicated to a brave pooch who fought a tiger to save a young child.

A maze of underground tunnels beneath one of the most beautiful forts in Serbia.

Backwards hour and minute hands and a timing mechanism that fluctuates with the temperature led to this clock tower's local nickname.

Nibble as you learn about Slovenia's longstanding tradition of making beautiful honey cookies.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

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

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

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

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

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

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