London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.