This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

One of the most notable figures in the Wurstelprater’s history is often assumed to be a fictional character.

The first modernist church in Europe.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

In an Auckland neighborhood, looming chopsticks lift noodles from the sidewalk.

The world's first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary is a haven for New Zealand's rare and endangered species.