The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.