This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

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

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.