With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

One of the oldest of its kind.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The first American axe throwing club.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.