Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

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

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.