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A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

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

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.