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

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

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

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

A massive sculpture of an obscure Celtic coin that has become a symbol in Slovakia.

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Across the islands, baked goods, sauces, and much more are for sale 24/7.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.