This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

England's most notorious suicide spot.