Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.