Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

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

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.