Places BeerAndLoathing Wants to Go

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

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

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

The final resting place for an internet icon.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.