A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

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

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

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

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

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

A steampunk airship "floats" above Hamilton Gardens delivering plants and compost.

Water-powered gadgets whirr to life in this quirky eco park.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."