Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.