Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.