A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Here be dragons.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

A mansion where wonders of Christmas are celebrated all year long.