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

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.