Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.