The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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