This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

The bluer than blue waters in these natural Israeli caves are reached via the world's steepest cable car.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

These small, triangular, colorful houses are a staple of Madeira Island.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.