A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

A rare remnant of an exposition that took place nearby at the end of the 19th-century.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

A pair of trees near a Hong Kong shrine are said to grant wishes, but only the ones they hold on to.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.