Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

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

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Pigduck of Turku.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.