Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

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

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

After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This old, abandoned hotel offers magnificent views.

Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.

A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

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

A water reservoir disguised as a castle stands atop a hill in a park in Stockholm city.