The world's first and only museum dedicated to dachshunds.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

A larger-than-life monument to the inventor of the Bunsen burner.

Lines on the pillar of Heidelberg's Karl-Theodor Bridge record the dramatic heights of past floods.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

This gilded emblem was once stolen by a Cookie Monster impostor, who demanded a charitable ransom for its return.

Blending modern art with Baroque architecture, this wondrous mosaic grotto serves as the late artist's final creation.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

A series of metal trumpets in the heart of Ruma represents the seven Vojvodina People's Liberation Brigades.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.