This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Chelsea's soldiers were given strict orders when crossing this historic bridge.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A replica of the famed statue far from home.

The longest and steepest staircase locks in the United Kingdom.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

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

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

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

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.