An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

A cableway for car transport.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.