Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

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

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Yo, Adrian!

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.