A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

Approximately 65,000 gallons of crystal clear water pour out of this headspring every minute.

An obsolete, long-forgotten advertising character lingers on this Sainsbury’s balcony railings.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

The only surviving relic of the abandoned Dominican convent.

Believed to be inspired by the Trevi Fountain in Rome.

This dragon narrowly escaped demolition.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

This ledge in Victoria Park served as a hiding spot for Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin.

This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

This gravestone tells the tragic tale of its occupant's death.

An ancient temple of Lord Shiva was rediscovered in an excavation in 2003.

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

This gravity-defying rock formation is one of Big Bend’s natural wonders.

This gold sash was part of a massive collection of pre-Hispanic gold artifacts discovered in an isolated village in the Philippines.

This 19th-century zoological collection has withstood the test of time.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

Legend holds that the Ancient Greek goddess of love once bathed in the waters of this grotto.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

A small collection of objects of a bygone era hide in plain view.