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

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

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

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

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

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.