The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

This annual Belgian water race attracts bathtub captains from all over the world.

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Something about this Brazilian city is slightly askew... literally.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.