The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

A permanent exhibition honors Queen, which recorded seven albums at the casino-based studio, including “Under Pressure” with David Bowie.

The second-highest train station in Europe.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This statue pays tribute to the iconic musician in the place where he recorded his final studio album.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

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

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

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

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.