Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

This building features dozens of faces along its facade, although one is a bit chilling.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.