This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

This peaceful oasis appears dreamy, but it's also the site of a nightmarish legend.

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

This temple was constructed entirely by Roman soldiers.

The last Viking king of Denmark is buried inside the crypt of this cathedral.

A tribute to all the green-thumbed workers who tend London’s public parks and gardens.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

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

This ancient castle has been abandoned since the Edwardian conquest of Wales.

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

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

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.