A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.