Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

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

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.