This Canadian hunting lodge is a long way from home.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

The only tower of an aerial tramway standing over a ski-lift.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

The place where houses are born.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

This early 19th-century graveyard is the final resting place of Vincent van Gogh's mother.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

An icon of the city, this chapel features an amazing dome ceiling and offers panoramic views.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

The ruins of this old church are slowing sinking into the sand.

A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

This peaceful sanctuary is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Colombo.

Explore the subjective dream of a hotel.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.