This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A former military hospital is now used to study and preserve artifacts of the Acropolis.

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.