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

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

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.