A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Built by King Norodom to honor his late father.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Yo, Adrian!

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

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