This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

A great white whale sculpture now sits in the location where the remains of a prehistoric cetacean were found.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Venice's island of the dead.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.