This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

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

The chaotic studio of one of the 20th century's most important artists has been preserved down to the dust.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

Oslo's historic toboggan run has been letting thrill seekers slide from train stop to train stop for over a century.