Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.