A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

Dive for drinks at Croatia's first and only underwater winery.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

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

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

Tucked away along a riverbend in an area known for its uranium mines is one of the world's tallest locks.