There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.