The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

Its humdrum facade only adds to its electrifying appeal: a rooftop with panoramic views of a shapeshifting metropolis.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

The Chilean mountain is freckled with (relatively) small European telescopes.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

The 20th-century chapel’s intricate woodwork includes amazing details, most notably angels playing bagpipes.

This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Greenland's first shopping mall also hosts the country's government.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

Fluffy and friendly alpacas nestled against the border of the beautiful Connemara region.

This magnificent 18th-century hall consists of a maze of nearly a thousand interconnected passages.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.

A model solar system adds a celestial touch to this suburban park.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

A delightful architectural wonder awaits on a lake island in Kuala Lumpur’s oldest park.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.