Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Among the busts of heroes of the Roman Republic of 1849, there is also a statue of a boy and his dog.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

A monumental fountain in Rome features a large statue of Moses that has been criticized for centuries.