This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

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

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

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

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

Building this tragically pointless stone barrier cost the lives of the prisoners made to build it.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.