Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

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

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.