A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

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

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

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.