This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

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

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.