A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."