This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.