This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.

This replica medieval European village in the Dominican Republic was built by a Hollywood set designer.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

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

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

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

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.