An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.