This giant two-tier celebration cake serves as a befitting advert for the confectionery college it sits on top of.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

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

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

The Pope’s secret escape route.