A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

The last remnant of a controversial statue at Cape Town University.

It celebrates the four men from South Africa who have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.

From atop a hill at the center of Cape Town, a cannon has been signalling the time since 1806.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.