Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

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

A collection of maritime artifacts from the world's first volunteer life brigade.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."