A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.

Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

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

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.