A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

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

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

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.