Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

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

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

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

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.