A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Legends of treasure and spirits flow from this this fairy tale-like oasis.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.