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The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.