This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

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

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.