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

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

"Would you like your sangria in an IV bag, or straight-up?"

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

Singapore's last surviving traditional village is hidden among giant skyscrapers and modern infrastructure.

This jam-packed Singapore antique museum preserves the fading remnants of a uniquely mixed culture.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.