This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

Israel's first dedicated natural history museum is home to 5 million specimens and still growing.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the ruins of this ancient monastic community.

The tallest waterfall in the Judean Desert is named for its connection to a biblical figure.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.