This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.