A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

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

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.

A living museum working to keep the traditions of building and repairing handmade wooden boats, ropemaking, and blacksmithing alive.