A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

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

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.