Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

This original castle in Kendal is 1,000 years old.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.