This restored eighth-century palace is a shining example of ancient Umayyad architecture.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

Home to over 1,000 street signs, this museum offers visitors an opportunity to travel over 70 years back in time.

This exceptionally well-preserved ancient marvel also houses a small museum dedicated to Jordanian folk tradition.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

The southernmost postal office in South America.

Covering 13 acres and hosting 3,000 shops, this is one of Africa's biggest urban markets.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Iguanas roam in a lagoon inside a volcanic crater that erupted more than 2200 years ago.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

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

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A jumble of concrete on the corner of one of London’s terraced buildings is actually a work of art.

A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.

This pub has roots dating back to 1430 and serves as the setting for multiple Charles Dickens stories.

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

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The last vestiges of a magnificent Victorian-era train station can be found in this pub.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.