A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

The remains of a 19th-century school and living quarters are perched atop a mountain surrounded by a thick tropical forest.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.