This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

This 1939 grave of a British soldier now receives legions of unlikely visitors.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

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

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

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

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.