What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

These shopping center benches are actually a modern art installation.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

A remote lodge nestled among some of the world's best-preserved rainforests.

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."