This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.