An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Two large posteriors in one giant statue.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

A high-end clothing boutique with a curious basement art installation.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.