Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

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

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

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

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.