A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

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

A quasi-futuristic roof sits atop a medieval Bohemian monastery damaged during World War II.

A small monument on the outskirts of Prague, where one of the bloodiest conflicts in the country's history was decided.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

The medieval "Bearded Man" relief still serves as a clever flood warning marker.

One of the oldest, well-preserved water treatment facilities in all of Europe.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.