Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.