A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.

One of the capital's last independent milk bars remains a crucial community watering hole.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

You will not be able to miss this building.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

Visit on a Sunday morning to see some killer tricks.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.