This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Haunting monument to the German Jewish philosopher who died while fleeing fascism.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

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

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.