Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.