Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

This collection of 20th-century toys is filled with a lifelong personal toy collection brought from the U.S. to Amsterdam.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A well-studied colony of endangered bats roosts in this abandoned Victorian Gothic mansion.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."