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

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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

In the town of Třeboň, carp is king.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.