The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

Long abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

Vibrant street art created with mixed media.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.