The final resting place of the father of modern biological taxonomy.

Legend has it this spring formed at the spot where a medieval Swedish king was killed.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Berlin's old airport.

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

An Elvis superfan built Denmark's own version of Graceland.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

This huge industrial sculpture looks like a UFO and a factory had a baby.