Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

This 17th-century pub once had a hole in its wall so the neighboring blacksmith could easily access beer.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.