California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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