This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

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

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

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.