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Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

An underground city of salt.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

A communal oasis on Lake Zurich.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.