The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate, from location to livestock.

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

A statue of the Swiss cartoon character stands outside the school that inspired his creator.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

A memorial to a 19th-century composer who was known for driving crowds wild.

An early masterpiece of Le Corbusier, a famed Modernist architect, hiding in plain sight.

This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

A treasure trove of scientific instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

The bust of a 15th-century Albanian leader in the middle of London.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

The first regular high-definition TV transmissions were made from this seemingly out-of-place mast located on one corner of a Victorian-era entertainment venue.