A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

Spend the night inside a two-story elephant villa.

This peaceful, round shrine in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle acts as a beacon of peace.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

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

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.