Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

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.

The collection of intricate sculptures includes one carved from a mammoth's tusk

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

This building once stood at the center of a butter war.

A tribute to smugglers and the Butter Wars.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

A reconstructed World War I-era communications array that was once hidden in plain sight.

Not many houses move across borders, this one did it twice.

This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This striking clock tower was once part of the Singer sewing machine factory.

A larger-than-life monument to the inventor of the Bunsen burner.

In a divided Germany, Potsdam's "central" train station was relocated to the city's southern suburbs to avoid West Berlin.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

A decomissioned facility where the German "Transrapid" maglev trains were once tested.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.