This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey lies the alleged resting place of the legendary king.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

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

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

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

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.