This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

High winds can make this one scary landing.