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

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

This public lavatory is home to a mini museum that explores toilets through time.

This cathedral's stained-glass patchwork of psychedelic colors and shapes was put in place long before the swinging 60s.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.