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

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

A unique subway station where pillars evoke ancient civilizations.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

An abandoned Ontario prison turned over to time and nature.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

These artifacts were discovered during the construction of the airport, with some dating back to the Neolithic period.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

Guelph’s hidden tribute to environmental action.

Built by a Detroit lawyer in honor of his wife.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.