This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

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

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

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

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.