This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.

Built in 1981 in collaboration with Andy Warhol, this giant piece of pop art stands on the campus of Colorado State University.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

A 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church that was once converted into a mosque under the much-disfavored Ottoman Empire.

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

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

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

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

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

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.