Universities

A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.

Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.

Where George Lemaître discovered the expanding nature of the universe.

This 19th-century zoological collection has withstood the test of time.

Above the door of a house, a plaque claims to commemorate the future living place of the inventor of time travel.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

This redwood is a historic landmark, a town’s namesake, and the dancing sideline symbol of Stanford University.

This statue is a commemoration of the only place where Freud spoke in the United States.

Dedicated to a college founder's alleged ancestor who was martyred in 1555.

Ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," this exotic shell grotto is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

This simple rock stands as a memorial of the major student protests of 1968.

The ruins of what is considered the world's oldest university.