The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This ferry carries passengers across the Rhine propelled by no engine or paddles but by the river's current.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This former big box store has been reimagined as a massive public art space.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.