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

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

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

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

An underground city of salt.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.