Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

Perched above the bustling town of Kerak is a sprawling, ruinous castle that has witnessed nearly a millennia of Levantine history.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

This commemorative stone was erected near the first Scout campsite.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.