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

Overlooking the spot where the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower stands Devon's answer to the Colossus of Rhodes.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

The Hungarian linguistics expert who wrote the first Tibetan–English dictionary was laid to rest in a remote Indian cemetery.

A massive sculpture of an obscure Celtic coin that has become a symbol in Slovakia.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

A museum-like shop that has been producing clogs, brushes, and ropes for nearly 200 years.

One of the world's first dedicated bank buildings in the world is now the oldest one.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

A pair of gigantic baby heads greet passengers at Atocha Station.

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This townhouse was once the original home of the Scottish Football Association.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

An impressive museum dedicated to the resource that made the Scandinavian country rich.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

The grand complex of buildings that comprise Liverpool's Exchange Flags includes a vast World War II bunker that has been frozen in time.

Most of Britain's gold reserve was secretly stashed here after the start of World War II.