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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.