This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The final resting place of England's most notorious bandit.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

This enormous sculpture honors an English town's engineering and industrial heritage

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.