The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A shrine honoring a legendary ghost bride lies within this vibrant temple.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

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