An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

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

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

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.