The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

One of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

This window celebrates the role of tea, coffee, cocoa, and cotton in creating the fortune of the man who commissioned it.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

This monument is dedicated to a young boy who survived a disaster that forced Edinburgh to reevaluate its building codes.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.

An 18th century fountain and two columns are all that remains of Rome's forgotten river harbor.

This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.