A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Crafted from ocean litter, this sculpture highlights the ills of overconsumption.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

These small, triangular, colorful houses are a staple of Madeira Island.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

A public art project to commemorate a tumultuous period in Derby's history.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

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

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

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

This bare, bronze lad in a lone sock sits in the middle of Loughborough’s town center.