This igneous rock monolith towers above the surrounding landscape just outside the Nigerian capital.

A labor of love and aviation in Nigeria.

Not your average art gallery, this massive center hosts 8,000 works from artists across Africa—and it’s free to the public.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

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

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.