Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.

This tower in a small Polish village uses the power of a sacred bell to ward off mischievous weather spirits.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.