The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

Inscribed on the gate are the names of 29 figures from the University's first five centuries.

This hidden gem reveals the history of Britain's first police force.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.