Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

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

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.