The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

This once-majestic, now-abandoned Victorian castle has seen better days.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.