London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

Built on the side of a mountain, this once poor village has been turned into the "Santorini of Korea"

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

A symbol of hope, survival, and national character, especially after it rose phoenix like from the flames.

A unique structure located on the grounds of one of five grand palaces that were built by the Joseon dynasty.

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

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

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.