The world's first funicular powered by a steam engine.

While it might look like an ordinary chain, this is the shop that turned Thai iced tea into a global phenomenon.

A reminder of a long-gone community and way of life on the River Tyne.

Legacy of Isidoro Cruz Hernández, one of the most crucial artists in the history of the alebrijes craft in this town.

Visit a century-old sweet shop serving gold-standard mango sticky rice.

This historic, pentagon-shaped fort houses the City Museum.

Catch a glimpse of local, native wildlife at this zoo dedicated to conservation and education.

What better place to learn about the beautiful game than an actual soccer ball-shaped building?

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

The last vestiges of a magnificent Victorian-era train station can be found in this pub.

Where two rivers meet—but don’t mix.

Here you can learn about an insect that was called "cactus blood," which trade turned immensely valuable as "red gold".

This giant foot is all that remains of a massive concrete play structure that once stood on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

An ancient relic in Edinburgh that is around 4,000 years old.

This ordinary-looking mailbox has a rather explosive history.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

An unusual entertainment complex full of up-cycled musical instruments.

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.

A modern feminist movement has brought to life the mural that machismo once denied to artist María Izquierdo.

Start your morning off with an epic food crawl in this market east of Oaxaca’s historic center.

Dine on funerary beans alongside off-duty lucha libre wrestlers at this legume-centric spot near Museo Rufino Tamayo.

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.