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Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

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

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

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

One of the world's largest pianos is displayed in the workshop of the man who built it as a teenager.

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.