Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

A dark Victorian well house now plays host to mystical waters and pagan shrines.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.