This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

An impressive piece of infrastructure that seems outsized when considering it serves an island with a population of less than 300.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

The half-finished remains of what would have been Scotland’s biggest piece of landscape art.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world spans 14 lanes of traffic and six rail tracks, all while lighting up the night sky.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

Passengers are not allowed to set foot outside this station, but you can still enjoy spectacular views of the sea from the platform.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

A 2,000-ton rock resting in a state of a delicate balance.