Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

Resting peacefully between two majestically-slanted trees, this roadside water trough circulates water peacefully.

Dedicated to the American general whose reply to a German demand for surrender was simply "Nuts!"

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.