This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.