The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

Travel through the wholesome amusements of yesteryear at this charming miniature village.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The clock that sets them all.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.

A stark reminder of the huge nuclear weapons plant that once stood on the site and its effect on the surrounding area.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

An underground city of salt.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

Burlesque Hospital Themed Restaurant.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

This old Estonian mine has been kept like a sprawling time capsule of the local shale industry.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

The Guardian of Tallinn.