A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

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

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.