A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

The middle finger of modernity.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.