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

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

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

A startling, centuries-old subterranean marvel hides in plain sight.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.