The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

A massive glacial deposit that includes a carved staircase to reach the top.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

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

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.

During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.

This tiny triangular cottage is one of a kind in England, and has housed everything from a watchmaker's studio to coffin storage.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

This Roman monument is surrounded by more recent construction, offering a stark contrast between ancient architecture and the modern urban landscape.

The Adriatic's most famous wind can be reliably experienced in the city's Marina.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.