A retirement home for soldiers that can trace its history to the Elizabethan era and beyond.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

The largest public library in the United Kingdom was designed to reflect the industrial and artistic history of the city where it stands.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

Chester Cathedral is home to a unique painting crafted on a canvas of cobwebs.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

This millstone commemorates a gruesome tale that may have been the source of the city's name.

These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

This 19th-century performer's gravestone identifies her as "the smallest woman ever in this Kingdom."

A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.