Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

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

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

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