This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

The only medieval bridge in Britain with its defensive tower still in tact.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

Prehistoric sandstone menhir with Early Bronze Age cup and ring markings, also known as Robin Hood's Stone.