The facade of this 16th-century building is decorated with carvings of 300 seashells.

This incredible collection contains rare steam-powered engines, rides, and trains.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

This magnificent mural was created with over 30,000 colored bricks.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The second largest surviving chained library is housed in this 12th century church.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.