Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

A quartet of brightly colored mythical beasts stand sentry at this gateway.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

A memorial to the soldiers who died in the bloody battles to control Verdun in World War I.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.