Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.