A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.