Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Recently revamped museum of Fijian history located within a gorgeous colonial-era garden.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.