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After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A giant yellow phallus sculpture hidden in the gardens of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.