When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

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

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The remains of an ancient settlement in one of the oldest archeological sites in South America.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

The ruins of the movie ranch owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.