High winds can make this one scary landing.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

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

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

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

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

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