It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

From dragonfruit to mangoes to durian this Thailand resort allows guests to stay inside all manner of giant fruit.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.