This cutting edge museum details the history of skiing, from its ancient origins to its status as a sport.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

Inspired by the more famous Scrovegni Chapel, Cappella di San Giovanni contains several amazing frescoes.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

A collection of 4,000 thimbles that's more versatile than one might imagine.

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

An ancient yew tree and holy well nestle beside a remarkable 13th-century church.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

It was once the longest continuously running cinema in the United Kingdom.

This Tudor cottage is adorned with many canary-clasping cats, which originally served as a reminder to a local clergyman of his pet's murderous ways.

This peaceful park saw the beginning of an extraterrestrial invasion in H.G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds.'

This Edwardian workhouse tells a harrowing story of those who were forced to trade hard labor for lodging.

The author of Alice in Wonderland spent his final years at this whimsical Victorian home.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.