After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The spot where Oxford garnered its name was also home to a medieval philosopher and includes a house covered in statues.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

Venice's island of the dead.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."