An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

Distressing images of the Last Judgement adorn the walls of this medieval sanctuary.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

A woodland close to England's "most haunted village" has been the site of many unexplained events and deaths.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

The ruins of a world-renowned medieval hospital.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

Two beautiful Victorian-era parks replete with ornamental waterfalls and lakes.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A reportedly haunted 14th century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”