400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

A student driver's nightmare.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Dive for drinks at Croatia's first and only underwater winery.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

A former special storage facility for documents during the Cold War.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

Baked in 1898 and still almost flawless, this floral masterpiece is considered the world's oldest complete wedding cake.