This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

This secret garden has bloomed into London's most unique hub of urban creativity.

The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

This local celebrity earned his fame by doing a job no one else dared.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

The largest timber structure in Europe.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

A giant piece of cutlery designed to remind us about the origins of our food.

The first museum in the United Kingdom dedicated to this woodwind instrument.

A monument to the migrants who cross the dangerous waters between North Africa and a tiny Italian island.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

This rock was donated to the museum by an inspired young visitor.

A massive, abstract lookout tower providing a panoramic view of Prague.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.