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A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Constructed from recycled wrought iron railroad tracks, it's been described as the most beautiful seaside pier in England.