Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.