A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.

This green and white building is shaped like a massive Rubik's Cube.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Buy raw milk from a 24/7 vending machine or pick up tomb candles at this local market.

Inspired by the Rialto Bridge in Venice, these three clustered bridges were just one part of a Slovenian architect’s grand vision.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

Built by Portuguese colonizers, the palace is now the seat of power for the independent nation.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

An obscure walkway dedicated to a scientist who helped pave the way for the world to sit up and take notice of Manchester.