A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

The medieval ferry service has been going strong since the 14th century.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

The local club's soccer field is practically surrounded by UNESCO-protected monuments.

This ancient Roman aqueduct once funneled water to Diocletian's palace.

Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.