Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The world's most elegant power lines.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

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

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The highest peak in Northern Ireland is topped with a stone tower and haunting burial mounds.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."