These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

This slice of 1960s Danish modernism does not conform to the Oxford college stereotypes.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Legend says this public grazing area hasn't been plowed for thousands of years.

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

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.