This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

A tiny island home to a former English slave fort.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

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

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.