Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A colossal aqueduct from the second century B.C., deeply hidden in a gorge on the outskirts of Rome.

A prison tower–like edifice honoring a beloved local benefactor.

The stunningly blue waters of these beautiful caves also have a violent past.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.