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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

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

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

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

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

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

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A daily pyrotechnic celebration marks a beloved tradition during Valencia's festival season.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.