This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

The location of this historic castle was inspired by a donkey.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.