The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.