The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.