The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

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

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

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.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.