Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

This WWII aircraft museum presents its wrecks like taxidermy, complete with recreations of the crash sites.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

This medieval church is the only one in the world that features all Marc Chagall stained-glass windows.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

The grand complex of buildings that comprise Liverpool's Exchange Flags includes a vast World War II bunker that has been frozen in time.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

The heroic tale of a remarkable pup who refused to leave her master's side, no matter what.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.