This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

It's easy to forget what century it is as you wander this rustic homestead.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.