The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."