Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

The last remaining bottle-shaped kilns in Scotland stand alone in an Edinburgh suburb.

An iconic red telephone box turned tiny art gallery.

It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

This unassuming shed was the stage for a monumental event in British history.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

The solitary cairn marks a mysterious death that's still controversial more than two decades later.