This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.