A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.