After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.