The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

In legend, this ancient dolmen was said to have been created when a troll tried to destroy a church.

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

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Built after WWII, the observatory site for the University of Copenhagen exhibits once world-class instruments.

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."