The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

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

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.