Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.