In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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

Elegant marble and old vaults fill this historic Dutch bank turned office space.

The Netherlands' first car tunnel has an unusually rectangular shape.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

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

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.