The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Venice's island of the dead.

A micronation of epic proportions.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.