Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

The construction of a tram line unveiled hidden remnants of the old medieval city.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.