Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.