This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

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

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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

Hundreds of signs pointing to the birthplaces of current Helsinki residents form stalactites on the ceiling of the cave-like Kamppi metro station.

The door to the museum holds a unique artifact from the Finnish Civil War.

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

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