The Jesus tree of Malta bears a striking resemblance to Christ on the cross.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.