This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."