Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Lurking among the classical architecture, rose gardens, and art of this historic country house—a crocodile in a bathtub.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

The preserved left hand of a saint once known as "the Pearl of York."

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

This towering monument is dedicated in memory of a most unusually named, yet heroic, horse.

This village provides a glimpse at rural life in Northern Ireland during the mid-20th-century.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

Some of the last remaining relics of one of World War II's most important invasions.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

An unsettling sculpture of a boy hanging out in a street in Ghent has been baffling visitors for years.

The bizarre home and sculpture garden of an eccentric artist.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.

A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

A massive, secret marina for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.