Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This incredible viaduct was part of the Victorian railway boom and helped the Midland Railway navigate tough terrain.

Legends say this red sandstone monolith and the dozens of smaller boulders that surround it were once a coven of witches—before a Scottish wizard turned them all to stone.

A remembrance of the local Scottish victims of the Lockerbie Bombing Incident in the now-restored neighborhood.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A reminder of a long-gone community and way of life on the River Tyne.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This sculpture made up of 22 bulbous bronze figures reminds locals of massive Weeble Woobles.

Eat fish and chips in a striking Neoclassical building that once hid a public lavatory.

Royal burial place of the kings of ancient Britain.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

This concrete monster of a wreck lies in the mouth of Langstone Harbour as a monument to the incredible history of D-Day.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

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

Where the Border Reivers of the Johnstone clan used to hide their stolen cattle.

A memorial to two dedicated postal workers who lost their lives delivering mail.