A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."