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

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Popular river that runs through the remote Serbian municipality of Leskovac.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.