The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

The real clothing store that inspired a fictional spy organization's front.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This bronze statue of Martin Luther King was placed in the park without permission.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The world's largest wooden structure.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.