The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.

This is part of the Francke Foundation Museum, a curiosity cabinet filled with different scientific and natural wonders.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel before his famed tower.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

Guarding the city of Chiyoda is a bizarre insectile creature with a name no one can pronounce.

This sculpture of a rhinoceros suspended above a city square is meant to evoke the weight of the human condition.

This risqué sculpture, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, caused outrage 35 years after it was erected.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

The arching stretch of London's longest street holds many reminders of the area's maritime past.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

The decommissioned steam engine’s whistle can still be heard three times a day at one of Japan’s oldest train stations.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

A window into a long-lost world, these colorful tiles advertise a long-defunct range of purgative teas, harmless smokables, and diarrhea cures.

A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Pripyat, now long-abandoned.

This gateway to subterranean Hanover plays jazz, pop and rock to surprised passersby.

Kissing the ass of this stone lioness has become a rite of passage in the city of Girona.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.