Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

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

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.