The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

A plaque marks the humble origins of an artistic muse who embodied the ideals of Pre-Raphaelite beauty.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.