This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.