A model solar system adds a celestial touch to this suburban park.

This postmodern apartment block was designed to be a vertical neighborhood.

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

After the owner of this Art Nouveau home died, it was turned into a museum displaying a lifetime dedicated to art.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

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

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.