This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

The last Victorian market in Belfast.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.