This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.