Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

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

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".