Step inside Westminster Abbey and you’re walking not just into a church, but into the bloodstream of British history. For over a thousand years, this Gothic marvel has echoed with the footsteps of kings, queens, poets, and revolutionaries. It’s a place where empires have begun, where vows have been exchanged under stained glass and stone, and where even silence seems sacred.

Along the wave-battered coast of USA’s Pacific Northwest, just south of Yachats, Oregon, there’s a place where the sea seems to vanish. Not metaphorically—but literally. A foamy rush of ocean crashes into jagged black rock, swirls, and then plunges into a gaping hole in the earth. Locals call it Thor’s Well. Travelers call it mesmerizing. Scientists call it a collapsed sea cave. But stand beside it during high tide and you'll likely call it something else: terrifyingly beautiful.