This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

Artist Danielle Jacqui decorates nearly every inch of her home inside and out with her work.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.

An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

Germany's tiniest institution of education.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

A memorial to a dizzying sports device and its creator.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.