A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

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

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

9,000 years of carnal history is on display at China's original Museum of Sex.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.

A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.