Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

An underground city of salt.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.