Catacombs turned marketplace.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

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

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.