Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

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

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

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

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

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