This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A jazz band formed by African water animals in the heart of Flemish Brabant.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.