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

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.