In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.

During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.