A famous big wave from Japan serves as a tribute to the victims of the disastrous Elbe flood.

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

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

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

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This hotel was used during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.