These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

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

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

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

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

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.

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

The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

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

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.