This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This sculpture, residing in a quiet corner of a London park, honors the victims of 9/11.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

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

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Named after a lodging site that existed nearby, a bridge has existed at this location since 1455.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

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

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.