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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.