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

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

A small curiosity shop with items ranging from antique medical supplies to taxidermied animals.