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

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The closed and crumbling Francoist luxury resort for workers is still full of life—for now.

The young girl gained fame for her atypical size and was regarded as a curiosity by the Spanish aristocracy.

Two large posteriors in one giant statue.

The much-loved protagonist of famed Argentinian comics can be found sitting on a park bench.

The atmospheric ruins of a historic church can be found on a hill above the city of Oviedo.

This bronze statue was dedicated to a 1966 Beatles hit.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

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

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

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

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This bronze statue stands throughout the year and illustrates an urgent message about the environment.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.