Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

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

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.