Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

The Scottish Reformation leader's grave was paved over and is now a parking lot.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

Renowned mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss once worked at this observatory.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.