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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.