A harrowing sculpture commemorates the four people shot down during the workers strike of 1842.

Locals spent years successfully fighting to save this beloved Brutalist behemoth from demolition.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This peaceful park saw the beginning of an extraterrestrial invasion in H.G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds.'

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.