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

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.