This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

Works from the golden age of Mexican muralism can be found inside a typical city market.

An excavation site that signified Hercules in Pula, and a glimpse into the city's Roman history.

"Bangkok's Green Lung," a large park on an island, feels worlds away from traffic-choked Sukhumvit Road.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

A warning against "the demon drink" adorns the northwest entrance of Glasgow Green.

A historic shipbuilding town is home to a sail-through fish-and-chips shop.

An abstract sculpture memorializing a student massacre that took place in 1971.

This 46-foot-tall carving of a legendary Māori navigator can only be visited by boat.

Named after and designed by women, this unique cultural center is an early 20th-century mansion covered in a modern shell.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

The interior of this church has been turned into a memorial to locals who died in Croatia's Homeland War.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.