Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

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