This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.