The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

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

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

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

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

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.