This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

The hall of fame for circus performers.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.

A historic shipbuilding town is home to a sail-through fish-and-chips shop.