Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A harrowing sculpture commemorates the four people shot down during the workers strike of 1842.

Locals spent years successfully fighting to save this beloved Brutalist behemoth from demolition.

Everyone's favorite clay duo immortalized in bronze.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Several bricks indicate the various flood levels this crossing has survived over the centuries.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.