An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

Germany's tiniest institution of education.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.

This unusual small wind turbine in Germany has only a single rotor blade.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

A wonderfully versatile natural history curio cabinet preserved since the 1840s.

This giant glowing "beanpole" adds much-needed pops of color to an otherwise drab power plant.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

This mysterious cross appeared on a farmer's lawn in 1972 and has been attracting pilgrims ever since.

A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

This red London phone booth once stood in front of Buckingham Palace and was used by the queen.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

This German monument honors the so-called "Prince of Mathematicians."

The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.

World's only telecommunication tower with a wooden pinnacle.