A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

Along this wire fence, travelers have been leaving a particular memento since 2012.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.