Largs, Scotland
Kelburn Castle
This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.
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Largs, Scotland
This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.
Skibbereen, Ireland
This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.
Dublin, Ireland
An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Cambridge, England
One of several Lilliputian portals that are ready to transport passengers to other dimensions, if they can find them.
Chobe, Botswana
There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.
Cape Town, South Africa
The frozen treats at this Cape Town parlor are inspired by Africa's food cultures.
Djenne, Mali
The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Robotic car thieves, freakish animals and huge neon floats in Northern Ireland's capital.
Leiden, Netherlands
This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.
Glasgow, Scotland
The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Cotonou, Benin
Africa's Venice on stilts.
Brunswick, Germany
Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.
Wuppertal, Germany
This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Waldsassen, Germany
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Washington, D.C.
The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.
Port Talbot, Wales
The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.
Baku, Azerbaijan
A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.