Places Edited by contender

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A nomadic museum known for its art exhibitions about religion and faith.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.