This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

This street has over a half-dozen names, all at once.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Hundreds of iconic jazz records were made in this church-like space.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

From burial ground bocce ball court.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.