This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

No building in the world leans as far as the so-called “Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi.”

The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

A unique configuration of blown glass can be found inside this hotel lobby.

This futuristic building is yet another architectural wonder in Dubai.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.