The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.

Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.

The first hospital in the New World.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.

The tallest mountain in mainland Netherlands isn't actually very tall.

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.