The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.