Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.