A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

An electrical pylon under whose legs a normal gauge train can run.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

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

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

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.