Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

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.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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