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The urinal.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

City Hall Urinal

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

The Heidelberg funicular.

Heidelberg, Germany

Heidelberger Bergbahnen

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

It's difficult to imagine, but this charming house was once a police station.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Old Police Station at Slottsskogen

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

The Giant of Rotterdam.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Giant Of Rotterdam

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

Heidelberg's Old Bridge Monkey.

Heidelberg, Germany

Heidelberg Bridge Monkey

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Amsterdam Oersoep.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam Oersoep

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

The Warsaw Uprising Monument.

Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw Uprising Monument

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

Skyddsmantelmadonnan.

Lund, Sweden

Skyddsmantelmadonnan

A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.

The Winganon Space Capsule

Talala, Oklahoma

Winganon Space Capsule

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

The Erotic Heritage Museum, Las Vegas.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Erotic Heritage Museum

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

The mine worker Fet-Mats Israelsson's gravestone in Falun.

Falun, Sweden

Fet-Mats grav (Grave of Fet-Mats)

His body was found mysteriously preserved in a Swedish mine over 40 years after his initial disappearance.

Bridge featured on the €200 note.

Spijkenisse, Netherlands

Spijkenisser Eurobruggen (Euro Banknote Bridges)

The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren't fictional anymore.

On the Way.

Sweden

On the Way

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

Parents of deceased children place colorful "bibs" on Jizo statues to show their gratitude for his protection in the afterlife.

Kyoto, Japan

Kiyomizu-Dera Temple

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The mural on Hasenhaus.

Vienna, Austria

Wolf and Cow Playing Backgammon Mural

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

The stairs to nowhere at Signal de Botrange.

Waimes, Belgium

Signal de Botrange

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

Intersection of two rivers: Nielba and Wełna in Wagrowiec, Poland

Wągrowiec, Poland

The Wagrowiec Bifurcation

One of only two places in the world where two rivers cross each other without the waters mixing.

Stockholm Public Library

Stockholm, Sweden

Stadsbiblioteket (Stockholm Public Library)

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

The Apple garage.

Los Altos, California

The Apple Garage

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

The figures have aged to a greenish patina.

Boulder City, Nevada

Winged Figures of the Republic

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Montezuma Castle National Monument

Yavapai County, Arizona

Montezuma Castle

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The huge white cross by the Madrid Airport is the Paracuellos Cementerio de los Martires.

Paracuellos de Jarama, Spain

Paracuellos Massacres Cross at the Madrid Airport

The mysterious large white cross visible from the runway is a memorial to a massacre during Spanish Civil War.

The vault and pool of Storkyrkobadet.
Permanently Closed

Stockholm, Sweden

Storkyrkobadet

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze

San Francisco, California

Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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