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

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

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

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

An effigy of the deity emerges from a temple's water every 40 years.

A towering work of stone and philosophy that was constructed using ancient Hindu science.

A gray market run by Burmese Indians offers a portal to a forgotten period in history.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

A favorite haunt of Delhi's politicos and intellectuals, this old-school coffee shop was shut down under Indira Gandhi's Emergency.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.