The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

Explore Hull's historic Old Town by following the sea creatures scattered throughout its charmingly cobbled streets.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.