The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

These ramparts, once lined with towers, were constructed in defense of Beaune.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

An open-air museum showing how people on El Hierro lived from the time of the first settlers until the late 20th century.

Teeny tiny hotel on the coast of the Canary Islands.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.