The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

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

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.