A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A student driver's nightmare.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.