This time-honored eatery near Hoàn Kiếm Lake serves the classic pairing of rice vermicelli soup and savory sticky rice.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A student driver's nightmare.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."