The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

The largest model carrot in the world.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

From open waters to open dance floors—this decommissioned ferry has been transformed into a lively nightclub.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.