A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A five-story homage to tea times past.