A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.