Salzburg, Austria
Schloss Hellbrunn
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
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Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.
Lübeck, Germany
The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.
Nashville, Tennessee
The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Madrid, Spain
Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.
Cusco, Peru
A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.
Schattenhalb, Switzerland
The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.
Washington, D.C.
This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.
Villa Caldari, Italy
An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.
Hinterbrühl, Austria
This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.
Eichenau, Germany
This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.
New York, New York
Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.
Bidah Valley, Saudi Arabia
Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.
Saudi Arabia
Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.
Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.
Hegra, Saudi Arabia
More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.
Gothenburg, Sweden
One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.
Okotoks, Alberta
This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Granger, Washington
In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Wahpeton, North Dakota
On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.