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

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Ancient human remains unearthed around the iconic monument.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.