400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.