The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

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

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!