A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

Fulham F.C. imploded once everyone excised its giant, hated tribute to the King of Pop.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.