A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

Poet William Blake penned some of his most famous work during his brief stay at this beloved country cottage.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

A gorgeous stone viaduct crosses over a bucolic valley.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This red London phone booth once stood in front of Buckingham Palace and was used by the queen.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.