Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

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.

Switzerland's oldest public observatory is an important part of the Zurich cityscape.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

This is an amazing but little known tile mosaic mural that used to grace the lobby of an office building in 1958, but now can only be seen from the second floor of a Shoppers Drug Mart.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."