A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.