Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

Today, Kent's medieval monarchs hold court on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare—or at least their statues do.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

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

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.