Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

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

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

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

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.