This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.

The statue honors a beloved bird that once roamed St. George's Market.

These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.

One of the largest lenses of its kind ever created, this former ship beacon has been brought down to Earth.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

A series of stained glass artworks that depict images of the hit TV show.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

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

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

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

The centuries-old obelisk may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

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