Once an art-deco theater, now a supermarket.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

This gnome sculpture and his wonderous hat forces train passengers to do a double-take.

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

Admire dozens of life-size animals made from old scrap metal, nuts, screws, and valves.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

Crafted by one of the first makers of stoneware in England.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

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

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.