100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.