The enigmatic symbol on this incineration plant's smokestack is, in fact, a one-of-a-kind clock.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

If God were a skater, this would clearly be His park of choice.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A tiny house showcases the busy life of a local gnome.

A solid steel plane designed to catch fire over and over again.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

A rampant horde of demons smirk and snarl at visitors to this church, home to a rare complete set of medieval-era stained glass windows.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.