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

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.