The hands on this clock appear to be created by two workers sweeping debris into careful positions.

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

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

The frozen treats at this Cape Town parlor are inspired by Africa's food cultures.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.