The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.