The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

Inside this old mill is a collection of images that will always remain frozen in time.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

This muddy wooded valley and the ancient structures it hides are said to be the favored haunt of the legendary Friar Tuck.

This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Miraculous vase predicts the future at this Tibetan Buddhist site in the Himalayas.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.