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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.