Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

This fantastic museum honors Gloucester waterway heritage.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Thrilling and delicious complement to any dining experience.

This stone obelisk is a relic of the 17th-century Swedish mile markers.

Celebrating the Swedish ship used in the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage.

This statue in Plaza San Francisco commemorates a beloved figure from 1950s Havana.

The stunningly blue waters of these beautiful caves also have a violent past.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

At this bohemian accommodation, guests who dream of joining the circus can spend the night in themed wagons.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

Known locally as the Jungfrutornet, this Medieval tower hides a dark legend.

There are hidden patterns on the subway seats of some Stockholm metro cars.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.