English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.