A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.