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This tower in a small Polish village uses the power of a sacred bell to ward off mischievous weather spirits.

These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

Nestled in the jungles of Vanuatu are the remains of what was once a cannibal oven.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

The largest hewn stone in history.