Known as the Hintz House, this medieval pharmacy has been an apothecary's haven for nearly 450 years.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

One man's stunning attempt at eco-friendly living.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

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

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

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

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.