Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.