This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

A replica of the gaslit streetlamp under which three teenagers founded a football club.

This gilded emblem was once stolen by a Cookie Monster impostor, who demanded a charitable ransom for its return.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

A bronze statue of Momo, a girl holding a huge ear, sits waiting to listen to anyone who needs it.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

Berlin's old airport.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.