A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

An artificial cave littered with semi-precious stones waiting to be picked up.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

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

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Yo, Adrian!

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

One of the most exquisite Lycian hilltop citadels in Turkey.