The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.