A Soviet era flat that refused to conform to the dull gray standards.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

A harbor town pays tribute to a heroic wartime carrier pigeon.

This village provides a glimpse at rural life in Northern Ireland during the mid-20th-century.

Whimsical woolen creatures have taken over this historic Northern Ireland park.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.