A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.