This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The magic's in the hole!

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.