A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The middle finger of modernity.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.