The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

This stone once marked the boundaries of Liverpool's medieval markets.

Most of Britain's gold reserve was secretly stashed here after the start of World War II.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

A piece of public art commemorating the world's first Black professional footballer.

The world's oldest railway bridge in continuous use.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

On a site with a long military history, a 1980s shelter.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.