This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

On a stretch of Danish coast known as "Cold Hawaii," this fishing village has become a surfing town.

Remnants of the Nazis' occupation of Denmark linger along the sand.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The much-beloved mascot of a local museum.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

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