A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

Home to 200 plaster casts of Scandinavian proboscises.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.