Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.