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

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A much-loved local landmark pays tribute to the shipbuilding past of this area.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.