This tranquil churchyard in the heart of England’s mining country whispers tales of both triumph and tragedy.

One of the first canal boat-lift inclines ever created.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This artificial lake surrounded by Brutalist architecture served as a stand-in for futuristic Britain in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'

A masterpiece of Art Deco architecture hidden in plain sight in West London.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

This small train ride offers stellar views of the Grand Garden Palace.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

Dedicated to a song so popular the request to "Play Shoreline" became part of Swedish culture.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.