This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

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

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

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

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.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.