A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

This curiously modern carving of St. Peter wears wellies.

A genius of the art of juggling is buried here.

Hidden masterpieces in a small church in the medieval city of Bergamo.

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

It's believed that the dead were once taken out of houses through these now walled-up doors.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

This medieval castle was reconstructed by Carlo Scarpa.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.

A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.