One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.