This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

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

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

A student driver's nightmare.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

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

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

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

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.