This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.