Wander among free-roaming storks at the sanctuary that helped save them from local extinction.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

Final resting place of John Middleton "The Childe of Hale."

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

The beloved war-time celebrity spent time in the area before retiring to the Edinburgh Zoo.

A quartet of brightly colored mythical beasts stand sentry at this gateway.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.