This coin collecting cod is over 130 years old, and the United Kingdom's smallest listed structure.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

This atmospheric cavern on the hillside above picturesque Rydal Water is actually an old slate quarry

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

This unusual sculpture is sometimes partially, sometimes fully, submerged.

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

At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.