Places Madeleine Wants to Go

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A community's effort restores the historical Maryhill Burgh Hall.

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

This long-distance walking route follows the Prime Meridian line as it passes through England.