This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Legend says this public grazing area hasn't been plowed for thousands of years.

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.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

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

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to England's legendary King Alfred the Great.

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

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.

These ancient ruins were the final resting place of King Henry II's mistress.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.