The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.