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

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

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

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

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.