In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey lies the alleged resting place of the legendary king.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

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

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Thanks to a clever legal loophole, this mountainside wine shop sells a hybrid cuvée that's been outlawed for nearly a century.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

This Roman quarry once held secret masses and smuggler's contraband and is now home to rare species of bats.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

The small Scottish townhouse where the "Father of the National Parks" was born.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.