Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

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

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.