One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

Home to one of the most popular teams in Scottish football history.

This mural condenses 96 miles of one of Scotland's best-known trails into a unique art display.

This two-legged horse statue celebrates a beloved cartoonist and his quirky characters.

This townhouse was once the original home of the Scottish Football Association.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Perched high atop telephone poles is an uncanny outdoor art gallery that greets passersby on their commute.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.