A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.