Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

Traditional Danish spot where the schnapps are flowing and the smørrebrød is loaded.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.