Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

A unique sculpture park that features the works of several famed artists.

This incredible viaduct was part of the Victorian railway boom and helped the Midland Railway navigate tough terrain.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.

One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.

This sculpture of Edward of Woodstock is surrounded by eight Victorian lamp bearers.

A replica of the famed statue far from home.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.