Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

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

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

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

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

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

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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