This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The famed literary character has a unique connection to this city.

Visit the home of Sweden's beloved fictional character, Pippi Longstocking.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

Canada's oldest sugar maple has been growing since around 1500.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall houses an incredible collection of ornate, centuries-old keyboards.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.