A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

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

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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