London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

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

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

An impromptu shrine appeared shortly after beloved "Torchwood" character Ianto Jones was killed off the show.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

Building Men of War and Indiamen from Holland's Golden Age.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

A massive explosion that leveled hundreds of buildings in the city of Leiden is remembered by a waterside plaque.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.