The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

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.

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

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

This nondescript building was the birthplace of Morris cars.

The beautiful non-repeating pattern honors the Oxford professor who discovered it.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

The world’s first statue of the late Apple co-founder.