The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This Canary island is a quintessential example of nature’s beauty, and its unbridled fury.

Teeny tiny hotel on the coast of the Canary Islands.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world is a verdant Scottish bulwark.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.