At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.