A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

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

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.