This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A student driver's nightmare.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

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

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.