This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

This hill and tower are steeped in legend, from King Arthur to the Holy Grail.

One of the best-preserved examples of an old town lock-up in the country.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

An architectural masterpiece which came in time to solve a dramatic situation inside this magnificent cathedral

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

This hulking rock formation balances on a pedestal that is 3 feet by 17 inches.

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.