Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

18m long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

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

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Perched above the bustling town of Kerak is a sprawling, ruinous castle that has witnessed nearly a millennia of Levantine history.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

This amazing mountain temple is topped by one of the tallest sitting Buddha statues in the world.

This luscious masterpiece created by landscape designer Bevis Bawa inspired the work of his brother, a famous Sri Lankan architect.