Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

A statue of the Swiss cartoon character stands outside the school that inspired his creator.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

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

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.