Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”