A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

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

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.