An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.