Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

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.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

This funky former tobacco factory is one of the most striking examples of Madrid's cultural diversity.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.