Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

A sapling of the legendary tree where conquistador Hernán Cortés sat and wept after an Aztec uprising.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.