An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This medieval church in Rome was almost destroyed following a terrorist attack in 1993.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

Once a farming community founded by the Italian survivors of an immigration scam, this colony is now a free camp and roadside attraction.

Giant lamp houses the tourism information center.

Hopefully inspecting his tin pan for little nuggets of gold.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

Standing in celebration of where the cattle dog was bred.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Modeled after the big, ferocious Hexham Grey mosquito.

Roadside display for a popular fruit and vegetable stand.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."