Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A network of bells in the pubs and restaurants around Westminster alerts politicians when it's time to cast their votes.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.