According to local legends, the shallow sandbar that allows visitors to walk across Orhaniye Bay has a tragic backstory.

These carved, weathered stones once gave mail carriers and pub goers a leg up.

The much-beloved mascot of a local museum.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

This ancient oak tree sheltered accused "witches" in the 17th century.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.