Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

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

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

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.