The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The near loss of the stately fireplaces at this medieval castle spawned some of Britain's most crucial historic preservation laws.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

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

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.