The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A quick trip around the globe through an amazing miniature exhibit.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Here be dragons.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.