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

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

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

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."