Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.