A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Despite the name, this ancient piece of crystal may not have been a lens at all.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

The first woman to become a member of the parliament of Iceland.

A monument dedicated to the civil uprisings that took place during the Pots and Pans Revolution.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.