The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.