A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A brother statue swap has adorned this building's facade for centuries.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This hill and tower are steeped in legend, from King Arthur to the Holy Grail.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.

Built by a king and rebuilt by an emperor, this aqueduct transported water for 1,200 years to this ancient Mediterranean hub.

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Back in the tiny USSR.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”