A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The middle finger of modernity.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

A mostly desolate bar on a remote island hosts hundreds of sailors for a few days each year.