Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Established hundreds of years ago, Gandan remains the premier Buddhist monastery in Ulaanbaatar.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

This half-ton piece of the Alps sits at the base of the CN Tower.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.