Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

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.

A statue of Charlemagne, created in the 1400s, once overlooked the city, and is now located in a crypt.

Does being buried standing up help you get into heaven faster?

This public bathroom is guarded by a flyswatter-wielding army major.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This is the last surviving Bollman truss bridge in the world.

Did the word “hardscrabble” originate from an 18th century Delaware fistfight?

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.