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

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

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 hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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 gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.