This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.

Switzerland's oldest public observatory is an important part of the Zurich cityscape.

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

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

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

One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.