The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A memorial to the only dog ever officially enlisted in the Royal Navy.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.