The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.