This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

This incredible collection contains rare steam-powered engines, rides, and trains.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

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

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.

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

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.