A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

An iconic red telephone box turned tiny art gallery.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

This unassuming Victorian cemetery is the final resting place of author Lewis Carroll.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.