These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

Picturesque basketball courts sheltered by historical defensive walls and with an enviable sea view.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.