This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.