Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.