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

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

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

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.