A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

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

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

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

Reputedly based on the tomb of Jesus Christ, this crypt is the oldest surviving structure of any cathedral in England.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.