This cozy café is housed in a repurposed pharmacy originally built in 1927.

This 1800s former railway tunnel is now part of a heritage walking trail.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

A small laundromat covered wall-to-ceiling with portrait drawings.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

These hilltop ruins of a forgotten Buddhist monastery flourished in Antiquity from trade with the Roman Empire.

This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer.

A former travertine mine traces the geological history of this unique desert filled with crystalline blue pools.

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

Absolutely no saxophones in the library.

This risqué sculpture, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, caused outrage 35 years after it was erected.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.

This ”skyspace,” which bears a resemblance to a spacecraft, is designed to disappear in the presence of light.

On a secluded beach is one of the few shipwrecks left on the shores of Mauritania.

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

Guarding the city of Chiyoda is a bizarre insectile creature with a name no one can pronounce.

A mysterious, abandoned Chinese building in Mexico pays homage to the area's East Asian immigrants.

A miniature beach in the middle of the desert.

The massive mountain ash that once stood at this site was cut down in an effort to prove that it was, indeed, the tallest of its kind.

Once the center of power for the region's various factories.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.