Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Flaming barrels of tar race through these village streets on Bonfire Night, a tradition that dates back centuries.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.