The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

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

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

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

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.