A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

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

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.