One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.

Final resting place for hundreds of prisoners of war.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

The canine-themed book collection claims to be Europe's largest dog library.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.