What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

Dynastic Home of the De Piro Family.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.