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

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

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

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

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.