A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

This landmark Victorian folly rewards visitors with spectacular views over the Peak District.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

Over a decade ago, painted penguins mysteriously appeared around Berwick-upon-Tweed for no apparent reason.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

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.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.

The ruins of a once-grand mansion in Northern Ireland are now thought to be haunted.

This colorful colonial neighborhood in Panjim is one of the only Latin Quarters in Asia.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

This 17th-century mausoleum is topped with an acoustic marvel.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

The world's largest banyan tree is followed by a community of worshippers.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.

The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.

The first English fort built in India.