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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The patch of land below the memorial was gifted by the British to the United States.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

These abandoned coal mine towers near Sherwood Forest might soon boast the U.K.’s longest zip-line.

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.