More than 100 antique vending machines housed in a used tire shop sell everything from candy to sake and ramen.

A network of ancient tunnels and vaulted chambers with mystical Buddhist reliefs, built for ascetic training.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

The shiny silver little brother to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.

Denmark’s never-ending bridge.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

Forgotten jail cells beneath this Scottish town hall are now used for delightfully artful storage.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.