Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

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

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

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

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

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.