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

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.