This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.