Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

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Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

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

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.