The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

The site of the notorious Great Train Robbery of £2.6 million, one of the biggest heists in English history.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

A relic of medieval punishment marks the center of this quintessential English village.

Home to one of the tallest church spires in Europe, this historic church once played host to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

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

The only medieval bridge in Britain with its defensive tower still in tact.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.