London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

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

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world