A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.