The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

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

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.