A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.