Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

The largest public library in the United Kingdom was designed to reflect the industrial and artistic history of the city where it stands.

The accidental discovery of this gilt bronze head led archaeologists to find the Roman Baths in the city of Bath

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

The history of knife-making in this French city is explored through this museum.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

Crossing a suspension bridge above a forest is the only way to reach this 12th-century monastery.