A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

The great Danube river starts here.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This work of art, which took 35 years to complete, has a motorway running through it.

This temple was constructed entirely by Roman soldiers.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

Critics argue this boab tree has been mislabeled for the sake of dark tourism, undermining its spiritual significance.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

Natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

One of the word's deepest gorges is also tied to a fantastic legend.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.