This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

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

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

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

A spectacular Neoclassical palace is home more than 15,000 artifacts and works of art.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

These clocks tell time in a theological sense.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.