Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

A Sri Lankan tea factory's ironic take on the Los Angeles landmark.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

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

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

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

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

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

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

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.