What Makes It Strange: Though it sounds like an outlandish piece of modern art, the Kindlifresser, or “Child Eater” fountain, has scared the children of Bern since 1546. Dressed in vibrant red and green robes, the rotund Kindlifresser is munching on an infant’s head, while more distraught babies await their grim fate in his knapsack. Some postulate that the statue served as a warning to Bern’s Jewish community, because the cannibal’s hat resembles the yellow pointed version Jews were forced…