A controversial art piece that harkens back to local folklore.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

The remains of 50,000 World War I soldiers rest under a towering arch overlooking the Alpine battlefields.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

A solitary lighthouse in Spain was an inspiration to the great Jules Verne.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.