An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Recently revamped museum of Fijian history located within a gorgeous colonial-era garden.