This eye-catching roundabout sculpture commemorates one of England's best World War II-era "shadow factories."

Carved into living stone, a beloved roadside chapel peacefully welcomes the faithful and curious alike.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Witness traditional silk production in the Uzbek city that's been a hub of sericulture for over a thousand years.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

This letter written by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 won't be opened until 2085.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

A colorful sculpture of an Australian symbol patrols an otherwise ordinary traffic island.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.