Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Sound travels strangely in this underground whispering gallery.

The Swedish flag over this small naval fort signals that the nation is at peace.

Finally reunited, the three effigies now stand in a museum courtyard.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.