An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.