These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

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

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

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

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

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

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.