New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

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

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.