"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Inscribed on the gate are the names of 29 figures from the University's first five centuries.

Inside this art museum resides one of Glasgow's most famous musical instruments.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

The final resting place of a poisoned lover whose death was at the center of one of Glasgow's most sensational murder trials.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

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

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

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

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.