What is the Thing?

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.