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

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This hill is all that remains of Cambridge’s former castle.

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.