A huge teapot illuminates a home for the elderly.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

A condensed piece of China floating in a Dutch harbor.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

This volcanic plug boasts the longest recorded history of any Scottish stronghold.

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.