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

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

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

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

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

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."