A powerful statue sits on Scalestone Point, looking out over Morecambe Bay.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

This building was designed to celebrate Italy's victory in World War I.

Europe's simulation of the Martian surface uses soil from Mount Vesuvius.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.