The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.