This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.

A menacing statue of this mythical creature can be seen at the legendary site of the monster's lair.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

Hundreds of notes give thanks to the patron saint of lost causes.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Though it was heavily modified, fragments of the original medieval cathedral still survive.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Back in the tiny USSR.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

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

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

Long tunnels run under the ancient chariot racing circuit to the tower.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.