This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

Public clocks around the city chime with bullfights, cockfights, old railways, and other local traditions.

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.