This hand-carved wooden carousel in the Story City North Park was built in 1913.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

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

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.