The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Also known as Rye Castle, this 13th-century fortification later became a prison and held one of Rye's most famous criminals.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

An unsettling sculpture of a boy hanging out in a street in Ghent has been baffling visitors for years.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.