The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

A massive concentration of algae is responsible for this lake's pink hue.

Visible from both land and sea.

The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.

A licentious look into Singapore's past, full of disorderly bric-a-brac and disreputable characters.

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

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

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

This remote castle was built to be a wealthy businessman's palace of vice but is now simply a historic vacation cottage.

A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.