London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

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

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.