Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

Beneath an ancient wishing tree lies an underground chapel with 12th-century frescoes and catacombs dedicated to a lady saint.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

This crumbling coast and its teetering tower are literally filled with history, but they are also at great risk of becoming history themselves.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

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

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families