An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

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

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

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

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

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

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.