It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

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

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

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

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

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.