St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.