Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

An allegorical statue of a giant pregnant woman representing justice and truth.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

Tucked among the sand dunes overlooking a Welsh beach, a real-life tribute to a fictional elf.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

Read a book with a glass of wine at this classically restored bar.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.