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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

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

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

See some of the world's greatest racing horses at this idyllic thoroughbred breeding facility and garden complex.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

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

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.