Baltasar Bachero became a hero after he saved the lives of two children nearly run over by an out-of-control mule-drawn carriage.

A pair of gigantic baby heads greet passengers at Atocha Station.

A comprehensive look at the art of Joaquín Sorolla in his former home in Madrid.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

A mid-14th-century tower that served as a prison for Spanish nobles.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

London's Victorian Tower of Babel.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.