Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.