An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

After decades of damage, this feat of timekeeping and automaton art has been given a new lease on life.

The pub has been in operation since 1819 on the banks of the Clyde.

A Guinness World Record-holding social enterprise whose shows don't shy away from heavy themes.

A long-abandoned relic of World War II.

This uniquely shaped rock formation is one of Scotland's most iconic mountains and gives spectacular views in all directions.

An 18th-century viewpoint across the surrounding highlands.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

According to local folklore, this odd face on a wall of Rudyard Kipling's former home can bring visitors a bit of luck.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.