These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

Despite its ornamental looks, this towering Tuscan-inspired anomaly was a masterpiece in hydraulic engineering.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Legend says that Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife, leaving behind this round valley.

This 11th-century Cistercian abbey was once seized by Henry VIII.

The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.

A shrine to one of England's female saints in what is believed to be her former home.

The only monument in Slovenia celebrating the famous writer, who stayed there for one night entirely by mistake.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

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

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.

Overlooking the spot where the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower stands Devon's answer to the Colossus of Rhodes.

The accidental discovery of this gilt bronze head led archaeologists to find the Roman Baths in the city of Bath

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The final resting place of England's most notorious bandit.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.