A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

A Swedish town came up with an out-of-the-box way to eliminate the bloodthirsty insects.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.

Local legend has it that the first humans were created in the pools here, leaving their footprints behind in the rock.

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

Underwater volcanic eruption forms new island off the coast of Tonga.