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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

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

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.