An abandoned quarrying village turned commune is now a hub for learning the Welsh language.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

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.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.