This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Thousands of costumed dolls fill one of the world's creepiest museums.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Auguste Maïcon, a pioneer in French aviation, was born in this house in 1891.