The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

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

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

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

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.

Hundreds of caves once used to store grains and animal feed.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.