London, England
Lock & Co.
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.
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London, England
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.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Brussels, Belgium
Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Maastricht, Netherlands
A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.
Maastricht, Netherlands
This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.
Budapest, Hungary
A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.
Budapest, Hungary
From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary
A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.
Budapest, Hungary
Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.
Tallinn, Estonia
The Guardian of Tallinn.
Tallinn, Estonia
Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.
İzmir, Turkey
This elevator was built in 1907 to connect two neighborhoods separated by a steep, rocky cliff.
Istanbul, Turkey
One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.
Zadar, Croatia
Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.
Zadar, Croatia
A musical instrument played by the sea.
Minsk, Belarus
A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.
Minsk, Belarus
Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.