These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.

These sculptures common among indigenous populations in North America, celebrate Shetland's unique geology.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.