A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

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

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.