The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.