The Hollywood home of Kermit the Frog and Yoda used to be Charlie Chaplin's film studio.

In Warrington’s Golden Square, it's always tea time.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.

Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

Definitely not a clown bar.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

King of the Saxons on top, Roman goddess of wisdom on the bottom.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.