The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

The stoutest tree in the world.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.