The museum houses one of the world's largest shoe collections, boasting over 12,000 pairs.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

It's believed King John of England stayed at this 13th-century castle before riding off to sign the Magna Carta.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.

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

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.