A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

A giant baby floats in the middle of Singapore’s nature park.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.

In 1999, a new equine figure was cut into this English hillside near the site where an older white horse had previously appeared.

One of the smaller hillside chalk horses was designed and cut in by a group of local students in 1804.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

This building contains a door only used by members of the royal family.

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

This cathedral's stained-glass patchwork of psychedelic colors and shapes was put in place long before the swinging 60s.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

This giant steel bear is a tribute to naturalist John Muir.

An agreement meant to honor the Duke of Buckingham led to this unusually-named passageway near Charing Cross.