After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

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

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

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

Biblical beasts and endangered animal preservation come together in this Israeli zoo.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.