A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.