Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Where the rules of that most quintessentially English game were first devised by an eccentric inventor.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

A painted tribute to an ancient Egyptian king lurks along a stretch of Scottish shore.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.