This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.