Ettal, Germany
Linderhof Palace
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
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Ettal, Germany
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Viry-Noureuil, France
The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.
Riga, Latvia
Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.
Riga, Latvia
A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Bolzano, Italy
Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Syracuse, Utah
The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Imlay, Nevada
The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."
Dickeyville, Wisconsin
A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.
Dunino, Scotland
A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Aksaray, Turkey
In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”