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

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Back in the tiny USSR.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Located along Lysaya Mountain, this monastery is home to the largest statue of Buddha in Russia.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

A failed infrastructure project now owns this unique moniker.

Venice's island of the dead.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Touching this little fossil embedded in the wall of a grand mosque-cathedral may make your wishes come true.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

One of the world's first dedicated bank buildings in the world is now the oldest one.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.