An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A retirement home for soldiers that can trace its history to the Elizabethan era and beyond.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

A Reformation-era fiery figurehead once denoted this location as a print shop.

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

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

One of the world's tallest flagpoles.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Vibrant paintings stretch across 600 feet of derelict railway.

Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

The former stronghold of the Malla Dynasty has remained virtually unchanged since the 17th century.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

This castle played host to the largest great hall found in medieval Central Europe.

An angelic, yet demonic-looking figurine presides over one of Glasgow's most ancient streets.

This bare, bronze lad in a lone sock sits in the middle of Loughborough’s town center.