This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.