Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

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

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

The second-highest train station in Europe.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

The medieval network of canals hidden underneath the city is opened to explorers each year.

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

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

This unique building in the main square stands out among the city's typically Baroque architecture.