The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

A musical instrument played by the sea.