A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.