The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

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

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

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.