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

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The middle finger of modernity.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

Rediscovered in 1992, this abandoned medieval village once flourished by fishing and piracy.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

An art installation memorializing a tram stop, which became a tram stop.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.