A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

The remains of a failed canal can be found in several towns near Lake St. Clair and is known historically as "Mason's Folly."

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

A small museum dedicated to the small—but mighty—Nürnberger Rostbratwurst.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This 46-foot-tall carving of a legendary Māori navigator can only be visited by boat.