Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

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

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.