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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

This remarkable museum sprung from one of the most important prehistoric archaeological sites in the world.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."