This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

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

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.