A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.

A serene public space nestled within the remains of Glasgow’s Victorian maternity hospital

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

A quick trip around the globe through an amazing miniature exhibit.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.

Get hands on with the technological marvels of the Classical world.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.