A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.